Elisha Foote
Elisha Foote (August 1, 1809[1] – October 22, 1883) was an American judge, inventor, and mathematician. He was married to Eunice Newton.
Career
Foote was educated at the Albany Institute. He studied law with Judge Daniel Cady in Johnstown, New York. After being admitted to the bar, he settled in western New York, and was district attorney and then judge of the court of common pleas of Seneca County, New York. His specialty was patent law, and he made several valuable inventions. In 1864 he was appointed to the board of appeals at the U. S. Patent Office.[2][3] On July 28, 1868, he was appointed the eleventh Commissioner of Patents.[4] Foote was the author of several books and papers on mathematics.
Personal life
Foote was born in Lee, Massachusetts to Elisha Foote (died April 8, 1846) and Delia Battle. On August 12, 1841, he married Eunice Newton (born July 17, 1819).[1] Elisha and Eunice were the parents of Mary Foote Henderson, an artist and writer born July 21, 1842,[5] and Augusta Newton Arnold, born October 1844, a writer who wrote The Sea at Ebb Tide. They had six grandchildren.[6]
Eunice was a member of the editorial committee for the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's rights convention, and she was one of the signatories of the convention's Declaration of Sentiments.[3] She conducted early work on the warming effect of the sun on air, including how this was increased by carbonic acid gas (carbon dioxide), which was presented by Prof. Joseph Henry at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in 1856.[7][8] She also worked on electrical excitation of gases,[6] and received a patent in 1860 for "filling for soles of boots and shoes".[3]
He died in St. Louis, Missouri on October 22, 1883. Eunice died five years later, on September 30, 1888.[6]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Goodwin, Nathaniel, "The Foote family: or, The descendants of Nathaniel Foote, one of the first ... " Hartford, Press of Case, Tiffany and company, 1849. p. 159
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